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A letter accepting membersliip was received from Mr. "W". 

 M. Roberts, dated, Bristol, Pa., Nov. 5, 1876. 



Letters of acknowledsrment were received from tlie Foun- 

 dation Teylor, Harlem (95, 97), and the Danish Academy at 

 Copenhagen, Oct. 17 (95). 



A letter of envoy was received from the Board of Com- 

 missioners of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 

 Harrisburg, Nov. 16, 1876. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Editors 

 of the Mining Survey of Melbourne; the Academies at 

 Vienna and Copenhagen ; the Society at Lausanne ; the 

 Kevue Politique and London Nature ; Mr. Scudder, of Bos- 

 ton ; Mr Packard, of Cambridge ; Yale College ; Professor 

 E. D. Cope ; Editors of the American Chemist ; Medical 

 News and Journal of Pharmacy ; Franklin Institute ; the 

 Geological Survey of Pennsylvania; and the Department of 

 the Interior. 



On motion, the bill of Mr. Hall for repairs of the roof was 

 ordered to be paid. 



On motion, the Librarian was authorized to exchange the 

 Proceedino;s for Poo-o-endorff's Beiblatter. 



The death of Judge Walter A. Lowrie, at Meadville, Nov. 

 14th, aged 69, was announced by Mr. E. K. Price. 



A communication, entitled " Remarks ou the Tonkawa 

 Language" by Mr. Albert S. Gatschet, was presented by 

 Dr. Brinton, with a personal notice of the author, well- 

 known for his work on the geographical nomenclature of 

 Switzerland. He was connected with Von Ruprecht and 

 others on the Wheeler Expedition, and has a book in the 

 Weimar press describing twelve Indian languages of the 

 Southwest. The materials from which he has made the 

 well-written and valuable communication to this Societv are 

 all original or unpubHshed. 



Dr. Cresson exhibited a bottle of nauseous smelling well 

 water from near Trenton, N. J., which his analysis showed 

 to contain no animal organic impurities, although a cesspool 

 stood at the distance of two hundred feet ; but about one 



